Hello and welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hansen. I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hansen.

So how are you doing today, Dad? I'm good. I'm really looking forward to doing this with my friend and teacher, Jack Cornfield.

Yeah, very much the same. So today, as you said, we have the pleasure of welcoming one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the west,

Jack Cornfield. After graduating from Dartmouth in 1967, he joined the Peace Corps and worked on tropical medicine

teams in the Mekong River Valley.

When in Southeast Asia, he studied under a number of Buddhist masters

before returning to the United States,

where he co-founded the Inside Meditation Society in Massachusetts,

with fellow meditation teachers Sharon Salzburg, and Joseph Goldstein,

and the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California.

His books have been translated into 20 languages and sold more than a million copies.

They include A Wise Heart, a guide to the universal teachings of Buddhist psychology,

a path with Heart, and his most recent book, No Time Like the Present, Fighting Freedom,

Love and Joy, right where you are.

Jack also holds a PhD in clinical psychology and is a father, husband, and activist.

So Jack, thank you so much for doing this.

How are you doing today?

Happy to be here.

Happy to see you both.

Really a pleasure.

I'm good today.

Great, thanks again for being here. To start by framing the conversation a little bit for our listeners, what was it like for you to go to Southeast Asia as a young man in the 1970s and be a monk there. It was a fantastic adventure. You know how

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